Water
Potable water (Drinking water)
- sufficiently high quality H2O
- consumed/used with low risk of immediate or long term harm

Making a meal

Cooking is the activity of making food with heat.

"To be a good cook means the knowledge of all fruits, kerbs, balms and spices, and of all that is healing and meet in fields and grove, savory in meat. It means carefulness, inventiveness, watchfulness, willingness and readiness of appliance. It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemists; it means much tasting and no wasting; it means English thoroughness, French art and Arabian hospitality; it means in fine that you are to be perfectly and always ladies, and you are to see that everybody has something nice to eat."— Ruskin

Recipes

HOW TO MAKE COFFEE

One of the most important things about making good coffee is the care of the coffee pot. Coffee should never be used after it has stood on the grounds for an hour or more. Always make just enough for the meal and afterwards empty the pot, wash, dry and leave open to air until next used. If any coffee is left over, however, it may be kept good by draining from the grounds and keeping it in a covered vessel. It may then be used cold or reheated. Cold coffee is very refreshing in hot weather.

1 tablespoonful of coffee for each person and 1 for the pot

1 cup of boiling water for each person and 1 for the pot

Put the coffee into the coffee pot, mix with cold water into a wet paste.
Pour on the boiling water and boil for five minutes slowly.

To make COFFEE WITH AN EGG, break an egg and mix it, shell and all, with the paste, and make as above.

TEA

1 teaspoonful of tea for a person, and

1 for the pot 1 cupful of boiling water, and 1 for the pot

Let it steep for three minutes.

COCOAAbout 4 cups

1 quart of milk

2 teaspoonsful of cocoa

Heat milk. Mix the cocoa and a little of the warm milk to let it melt, and then mix all together, keeping it on a slow fire.

OATMEAL FOR THREE PERSONS

2 cup of oatmeal (Quaker Oats)

1 quart of hot water.

A pinch of salt Boil fifteen minutes.

Many of these recipes are given for three persons. For a smaller or larger number decrease or increase ingredients in proper proportion.

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External articles

Jessup Whitehead, Cooking for profit: A new American cook book adapted for the use of all who serve meals for a price. Originally published in the "San Francisco daily hotel gazette,", Volumes 1-2. The author, 1893.